This publication provides a summary of data relating to students, programs, subjects, and training providers in Australia's government-funded vocational education and training (VET) system. Government-funded is defined as Commonwealth and/or state or territory government funded training delivered by contracted training organisations. Data for the Government-funded students and courses series are received by NCVER in four cumulative submissions: (1) January to March, submitted in May; (2) January to June, submitted in August; (3) January to September, submitted in November; and (4) January to December, submitted in March. This allows additional data to be reported and corrections made to previously submitted data. The data in this publication cover the period of 1 January to 30 September 2023. For comparative purposes it examines data for the same period of the previous year.